Re: [s-h] Re: ALSA patch for 2.5.2pre9 kernel

Miles Lane
2002-01-08T02:53:23Z

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 13:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> In article <3C39E6A0.34A88990@alsa-project.org> you wrote:
> > If you want to keep top level cleaner and avoid proliferation of entries
> > we might have:
> >
> > subsys/sound
> > subsys/sound/drivers
> > subsys/net
> > subsys/net/drivers
>
> And what part of the kernel is no subsystem?
> Your subsystem directory is superflous.

Change subsys/ to some name that means "not device-specific".
The point is that the net and sound system-level stuff isn't
composed of device-specific drivers and the other directories
below linux/ do not have a bunch of device-specific drivers
associated with them (kernel, fs and mm).

> If, for some reason, we want to move all code in the kernel around
> we should do it once and in a planned manner.

Maybe a better structure is needed, but moving /net alone
would be a big project.

Miles